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[House  Bill,  No.    .] 

HOUSE,  September  4,  1862. — Read  first  and  second  times,  and 
referred  to  Military  Committee.  September  22. — Reported  back  with 
amendment,  placed  upon  the  Calendar  and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

[By  Mr.  Collier,  of  Virginia.] 


A.  BILL 

To  be  entitled  An  Act  Authorizing  and  Regulating  Substitutes- 

1  Section  1.   The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of 

2  America  do  enact,  That  all  persons  not  liable  for,   but 

3  capable  of.  performing  military  duty,  may  be  received  as 

4  substitutes  for  those  who  are  liable  and  not  mustered 
•")  into  the  military  service,  under  the  following  regulations, 
t'»  to-wit  : 

7  First.  Whenever  a  substitute  so  authorized  is  received 

8  into  the  service  shall  desert,  the  captain  of  the  company 

9  from   which   such    desertion   is  made   shall   compel  the 

10  attendance  of  the  principal  for  military  service. 

1 1  Second.  If  such  principal   so  attending  shall  present 

12  another  substitute,  who  shall  be  in  all  respects  fit  and 


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13  proper,  such  substitute  shall  be  received  upon  the  same 

14  conditions  as  the   first:    Provided,  however,  That   in  no 

15  case  shall  more  than  two  substitutes  he  permitted. 

1  Sf.c.    2.     Whenever   the   substitute    in    any   case   shall 

2  become   liable  to  military   Bervice,  his  principal   shall  be 

3  made    liable  to  and    perform   all   military   duty,  and   be 

4  compelled  into  such  service  as  might  be  required  of  his 

5  substitute. 

1  Sec.  3.   When  a  party   has   been   regularly   mustered 

2  into   the  service   and   desires  to  put  in  a  substitute,  such 

3  substitution  may  be  permitted  under  such  regulations  as 

4  may  be  prescribed  by  the  Secretary  of  War. 

1  Sec.  4.  The  Secretary  of  War  is  hereby  authorized  to 

2  prescribe  regulations  concerning  discharges  from  service 
?>  as  herein  provided. 


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J±  BILL 

To  be  entitled  An  Act  to  regulate  the  Reception  of  Substi- 
tutes in  the  Army. 
1         Th.    Congress  of  the  Corifederatt   States  of  America  wo 
'1     enact,  That  all  persons  for  whom  substitutes  over  thirty- 
:)     live  years  o\'  age   have  been   received  into  the  military 

4  service  of  the  Confederate  States,  shall  continue  exempt : 

5  Provided,  That   the  principal  shall  be  held  liable  to  said 

6  service  upon  the  desertion  of  the  substitute  ;  and  where 

7  persons  have  employed  substitutes  under  eighteen  years 

8  of  age,  they  shall   become   liable  on   the   arrival  of  the 
!)      substitute  at  that  age.  and   hereafter  no  substitutes  shall 

10     be  received  under  eighteen  years  of  age. 


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